Pedro Almodóvar

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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

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Scorsese to introduce 'Pandora'

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Film News: Director honoring Lewin Film at N.Y. fest -- Martin Scorsese and others will be gracing Gotham's mean streets during the New York Film Festival's just-announced special events.

Stalked: Cruz and Almodovar, Hercules, The Fall on DVD

Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar are teaming up again for a four way love noir film... Steven Spielberg's The 39 Clues has a writer... Sheldon Lettich is developing Hercules: The Beginning starring Alexander Nevsky... Tarsem Singh's The Fall is going to DVD......Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.

Almodovar Reteams With Penelope Cruz

Empire News (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

On the noir-ish Broken Embraces

SPC wants Almodovar

JoBlo (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the North American rights to Pedro Almodovar's latest effort, BROKEN EMBRACES, marking their tenth collaboration with the celebrated Spanish filmmaker. The film, which is currently filming on location in Madrid and the Canary Islands and is being shot in a film noir style, re-teams the director with Penelope Cruz in a story that centers on a four person love quadrangle...

Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz Working Together Again

FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Actress Penelope Cruz and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar previously worked together on the highly acclaimed film Volver, among a few others, and now they're at it again. Broken Embraces, which just got picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, is the latest film the two are doing together. Written and directed by Almodovar, the film is described as an amour fou (passionate love) involving four...

Casting Couch: Quentin Finds Fraulein; Penélope and Pedro Together Again

E! Online (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

• Quentin Tarantino is swapping muses. Uma Thurman is out and Diane Kruger (Troy) is in as the femme fatale in the Pulpmeister's highly-anticipated World War II drama, Inglorious...

Almodovar to Sony Picture Classics

Screenhead (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Apparently, Sony Picture Classics persuade Pedro Almodovar to Broken Embraces, the director’s latest alliance with actress Penelope Cruz that he also scripted. The film also stars Almodovar friends Lluis Homar and Blanca Portillo. The film has been reported several times to be shot in the style of 1950s American film noir. Almodovar is filming on location [...]

• Almodovar, Sony embrace 'Broken' - Variety.com
• Almodovar Reunites with Cruz, Sony for Broken Embrace - Rotten Tomatoes
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Fipresci hands prize to 'Blood'

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

Film News: Anderson to receive award in San Sebastian -- Paul Thomas Anderson’s searing portrait of overweening ambition, “There Will Be Blood,” has won the Fipresci (the Intl. Federation of Film Critics) Grand Prix for film of the year.

Penélope Cruz: 'I don't fall in love when I'm working'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

Spanish-born star Penélope Cruz talks to John Hiscock about working with directors Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar - and her habit of becoming romantically involved with her leading men.

François Ozon's career may be hard to track but his charm remains constant

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

Interview: François Ozon's latest film, Angel, is the latest in a string of cheekily genre-busting projects. But, wonders Ryan Gilbey, will the ex enfant terrible ever grown up?

Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

The Boing Boing tv crew is taking this end-of-summer week off from production, so we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months -- fun stuff you may have missed. Today, one of my personal all-time favorites: takenoko (竹の子), young bamboo shoots, with Joi Ito and original music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. -- XJ You may know Joi as a serial entrepreneur, a twittering globetrotter...

Penelope’s Eclectic Choices

StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

Penelope Cruz has weathered her share of controversies over the years — including her relationships with high-profile leading men such as Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey and Orlando Bloom — yet there’s little doubt that she’s efficiently established herself as one of the most talented and flat-out gorgeous actresses to emerge from Spain’s sunny shores. Penelope [...]

Movie Night: En Español Sin Subtitulos!

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

Jardin Comunitario de la Playa / Beach Flats Community Garden on Raymond St in Santa Cruz

Softly from Paris

Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008

While completing my pages on Walerian Borowczyk, I came across the Série rose Trailer for the Série rose, alluding hidden and secret libraries, or, enfers, Giftschränke or remota. Série rose: Les Chefs d’œuvre de la littérature érotique (literal English: pink series, the masterpieces of erotic literature) is a French television series of 28 episodes of 26 [...]